Like many heavy metal legends, Sepultura's story begins with a born-to-shred prologue. In this case, it was Max Cavalera's first trip to a Sao Paulo record store, a.k.a. the moment his young mind was i …

Before we go any further, listen to the lo-fi cage rattling of "Morbid Visions." We know what you're thinking: that 100-yard death-metal dash can't be the work of the same Sepultura that wrote t …

When Elmer Bernstein unleashed his swaggering, slightly dangerous jazz score for the '55 Frank Sinatra movie The Man with the Golden Arm, he took the world of movie music by storm - and nabbed h …

"Why am I in London, anyway?" you wonder, staring at a pint of warm beer. Oh yeah, that's why: Because of wise-cracking, post-Python Brits like Mike Skinner, the guy who just started spitting social co …

The words ring like a gunshot even today: "How do we sleep when our beds are burning?" A great question, really, especially when it's presented in the form of a subversive smash featuring more hooks th …

In case you've avoided keeping score, New Found Glory have tightened and tweaked their proven pop-punk formula for more than a decade. That's not including guitarist Chad Gilbert's stint screaming in t …

Contrary to popular belief, New Found Glory is capable of much more than cheeky popcorn-flick covers ("The Glory of Love," "The Promise" - as backed by Dashboard Confessional) and melodic ditties of th …

The very essence of Cat Power's appeal is captured in a striking, stop-you-in-your-tracks cover of the Rolling Stones' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" - slowed down to an absolute crawl, it shifts from …

It sounds strange on paper: a notoriously reserved Chan Marshall stretching her pipes out on an underground hip-hop single. Yet here she is, killing it on the sultry R&B hook of "I've Been Thinking"; n …